North Korean Blowup by Chet Cunningham

Author:Chet Cunningham [Cunningham, Chet]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3
Publisher: Chet Book Publishers
Published: 2011-10-24T04:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

It took the platoon only a half hour to hike out to their high point where it would attack the camp. Hunter positioned his men a hundred yards from the tents in a forty yard arc, and kept them in the cover of the brush and dozens of good sized pine trees. Then they waited.

“We could push the attack up to oh three hundred,” Bancroft said on the radio.

Hunter, who was with Beth and Rattigan, vetoed the idea. “That would give them another hour of darkness to escape if they luck out and we miss a few. Might work better to push it out to oh five hundred. Give us an hour for the attack and then with daylight we can track anyone who got away and tried to walk into town.”

“I like it,” Senior Chief Chapman said. “That extra hour could make a big difference. Let’s go at oh five hundred instead.”

“Bancroft?”

“Yes, one hour should be plenty for the attack, and the daylight will help with stragglers.”

“Done,” Hunter said. “Take a nap if you can. Tran, I want you to do a recon on them as close as you can get. See how many guards they have and where they are if possible. Don’t get caught.”

“Off and running, Cap. I’ll work all around the camp and see if there’s anything there we don’t know about that we should. Like I don’t remember seeing any trucks or vehicles when we looked at it this afternoon.”

“Good idea. That’s why you get the big bucks. Go.”

Beth had brought a back pack with her in her drag bag, and now put her tool kit into it and adjusted it so it fit tight and secure. She slipped into the shoulder straps and nodded. Yes, it would work well and leave her both hands for her submachine gun. She took off the pack and moved closer to Hunter.

“How do we get down into the mine?”

“No idea. I was hoping it would be a strip mine, just a big gouge out of the land, but no such luck. It’s an underground type. Maybe a shaft, but how do we get down the shaft if there’s no working gear? Could be some rope around. I have no idea how it is set up or how deep it is.”

“Must be pretty deep if they want to shield an accidental nuclear explosion,” Beth said.

“I’d hope so. That was one thing that Dr. Sung didn’t know, or forgot to tell us. We’ll have to play it by ear when we get there.”

“So when do I come down the hill?”

They could see a few lights at the camp below and hear the continuous purr of what must be generators providing power to the camp.

“When? When we get the place cleared and safe. For sure not before daylight. We will absolutely take no chances with you getting involved in a shooting scrape down there.”

“Good, one was enough.” She gave a nervous laugh. “You said something about taking a nap. I couldn’t go to sleep now with a whole bottle of sleeping pills.

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